Natsume announced that Harvest Moon: A New Beginning is now available for download on the Nintendo eShop for $39.99. This is Natsume’s first title to be released on the eShop. Hiro Maekawa,President and CEO at Natsume stated “We hope to bring several classic Natsume titles to our Nintendo fans soon as well, including Harvest Moon GBC and River King GBC, so Harvest Moon: A New Beginning is truly just the beginning!”

Those who wish to purchase a physical copy of Harvest Moon: A New Beginning can still order the game at the Natsume Store. A free plush yak is included with the purchase.

Echo Village has fallen into ruin and it’s up to you to revitalize the Village and help return the people to the town. Harvest Moon: A New Beginning is the first Harvest Moon game that allows you to fully customize your character and almost every aspect in the game. Gamers will be able to change their appearance, clothes, even the location of every building in the village.

The Thanksgiving/Black Friday week begins with the launch of Nintendo’s Wii U on November 18th. Not only do we get the console itself, but a good 20 games to kick things off at launch.

New Super Mario Bros. U marks the first time a Mario title has been released for a new system since the days of the Nintendo 64. Other big titles for being released this week include Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, ZombiU, and PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.

This week could easily be redubbed as “Getting Ready for Wii U” week. Aside from Call of Duty: Black Ops II, almost every game in release is for the Wii U platform (which makes it way onto store shelves November 18th).

No tricks: the last week of October can be considered a treat for gamers as a lot of good releases are on tap. Among the most anticipated of these is Assassin’s Creed III. Nintendo starts the week off right with the next installment in the Professor Layton series, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask for the 3DS. Other games of note this week include WWE 13, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, and LEGO Lord of the Rings. Fans of 80’s cartoons might also be interested in the release of ThunderCats for the DS or Transformers Prime: The Game for Nintendo’s systems.

The concept behind Zombie Driver HD is a simple one, as is its execution. Drive, run over zombies, rescue people, move said people from one location to another, run down more zombies. Pretty simple.

As you might expect, you essay the role of the driver in Zombie Driver HD. The game begins with your commandeering of a taxi cab, but you’ll go through a number of vehicles as you progress through the course of the proceedings. All told, you get 31 missions, most of whose parameters were noted above: a given mission will either require you to rescue people, defend them, destroy a giant or mutated zombie “boss”, move people from location to location or pick up objects and return with them to home base. Each mission comes with a voluntary “side mission” which you can completely ignore if so inclined. That said, it’s not a bad idea to complete these, as a successful side mission allows you to unlock extra cars or money, which can be used to upgrade your vehicles and weapons. One big downside is that only one weapon can be used at a time; there is no option to store up weapons for later use. However, weapon powerups are found scattered throughout the level and can easily be switched up. If you do run out of ammo on a particular weapon, rest assured it won’t be too hard to find another weapon or some health.